| Show elections erdei 0 ns the larup law un on the subject S abject A fineral ji g en orai oral election will beheld be next monday in this territory necessity for having all things connected therewith conducted n strictly in ith the provisions ovi of the statute ithac have been made and provided for the thol regulation tion of elections and prescribing the cat lons ions of aleci elec giors must be apparent to all concerned care be taken taked by those acting in the premises re that the election may ma be held heid 9 as all public choices of officers officer should b lie lle e in conformity confor mit T to the law which has bei bel L fi lalle laile for taking expressions of the regard td their f all persons entrusted with the ot of duties the tho public weal ought to make themselves Tes thoroughly ac acquainted quain ted with itil the rules 4 that havo have been adopted for their guidance ee in the discharge of bf the duties thus devo llod auf bud itlA some not n at and occasionally as ss to W whether het hot hier bier they thoyl rightly is re quiro dot dof thel theio themo o hot not rb girdles arth of the 0 consequences th at may result from their ihei r or oi nonperformance performance non ton or mance manco some references to ii 0 ahe abe legislative enactments relative to the dulles duties of officers and the qualifications of electors e may b be a hanefi cial clai the provisions of the tract act regulating remi lating elections approved appa djan jan are plain and explicit specifically indick Indich indicating tin k the d d ties lles of all officers who ara required td early carly the thestine same saine into effect after providing for the holding of a general election on the first monday of august annually in each precinct in the several counties it makes it the duty of the county clerks to cause a notice of the time and place of holding the election and the number and kind of officers to be voted for to be posted up in at least two public places in each precinct at least six days before the time for holding the same now the posting up of only one such notice and thai that not where required norin time will not do fo for r i much onnen often depends upon a strict compliance with the taw taw in such mit matters bitters the third section of said act provides that the senior justice Justlee of the peace in each precinct shall be the judge of elections therein and in the absence of a justice of the peace that the electors first assembled on the day of election to the number of six may appoint some suitable person to accas act as judge of that election it is the duty of the judge of the election to appoint a clerk provide a ballot box and poll book receive number and deposit the votes of the electors in the ballot box and to not knowingly permit any person to vote who has baa not the right to do so the fourth section of said act emphatically declares that the elect election lon ion shall be held from hour houi after sunrise until sunset and thattie th that atthe the electors shall not vote in any other precinct than the one wherein they ther reside reide the fifth section directs that the electors shall after having provided themselves with a vote containing the names of bf the persons they wish elected pro sent the same properly folded to the judge of the election who after having numbered it shall deposit in the ballot box the clerks duty is to write the na names liles tides of the electors voting in the poll book and opposite thereto the number of bf each electo electors ef vote the election the judge is required red ted to seal up tip the ballot box and poll 1011 i book and transmit them without de delay delalto to the office of the county clerk this is a very vert important matter the poll books should be certified to by the respective judges and clerks as being a true and correct I 1 list of the names nameh of the elec electors who gho ho voted athe at the election held on that day a a stating the precinct and the trans transmission should never be entrusted to an I 1 irresponsible honsl person s an T the ger canvassing board con consisting slating sTating of bt the county clerk anz ann and probate Jud judge geOr or in his hia absence one of the selectmen must and of course will strictly conform to th the rules indicated by the law in counting the votes making abstracts returns etc which if rightly done as well as all other ather matters connected with the election will make the complete and the expression express lom ioa ot of the dillof will of the people legal fegal beyond all controversy questions are ard occasionally asked by persons who have not had in interest enough in such matters to properly inform themselves in relation To lation to their rights and duties as ciu clU citizens zens concerning the qualifications necessary neg essary to possess to entitle a pers pera person on i to exercise the elective franchise in this territory such queries may be answered in few words by averring that every american citizen above the age of twenty one years I 1 without regard to sex is entitled to th that at mes inestimable privilege who is not inhibited by legislative enactments by the fifth section of the organic act congress graciously provided that atter after the first election in the territory the qualifications hallil of voters and of holding office should olid be such as the legislature might prescribe proscribe provided that the right or of suffrage and of holding office should be exercised cased donly only by ly citizens of the united states including those recognized as citizens by the treaty with mexico in eighteen hundred and forty eight in virtue of said provision if the right did not otherwise exist the legislative assembly have provided vided aided d that all citizens of the ahe united states slates abyo abye 9 the age of or twenty on one 0 years v ears earb the women as well as the men who wh olave have been constant resident residents af in the territory during the tho Six months next preceding a general elod tibia may vote thereat excepting those excluded e by bi an act not prescribing certain q qualifications coial 1 fi dilons necessary to enable a person to 1 be eligible to hold office vote or serve as a juror approved jan 24 1850 as fol aws sec SEO S P and be it further enacted that no officer or so dier dlen of the united states army or other person subject to their military authority is eligible to hold any office or serve servo on any jury or vote cotest tany any election in iii this territory unless his home and tind olace of residence was therein at the time his engaging in such service it inthav hav hat g been provided by the third section of said hat tig person should vote at any election elect lom unie telesa ih had been a constant refi resident dentin in the territory ry dur during 1 ng th the e six mot E preceding said election th the a sixth lith section declares ae ciares clares that no person shall be bd dae deemed resident within the deanin meaning of the theae these tax payer in this territory to arl lerom erom from the foregoing I 1 it t ivill be seen with ahe the exceptions indicated that all citizens of the united states of or lawful age including i not gril nativa 10 bom but all who have hi v e citizens either elther by compliance with or 1 by the operations of the provisions 1 I to naturalization alir ution laws 0 of our a aright right to t vote voto at all elections for fr territorial county ana and precinct officers 1 bu lu aliens allens 1 lon ion and minors have 1 ve lot i 0 t in conclusion it esthe duty lo of f eve every ry male maie elector unless unavoidable 1 circumstances prevent to go to the place of holding elections in the precinct in which h he I 1 resides on monday the seventh day august and on all such occasions thereafter and vote for the persons he desires t 0 be defected elected to the offices to be filled th women having the right and desire to vote will of course do so the polls should opened punctually at the specified time about six in the morning and no close until sunset that farmers and others who may so desire can vote either going to or after returning from their labors we have been thus explicit in giving quotations from the laws on the subject elections that every officer and voter in the territory may have a full understanding of the duties of bf each at the general election there are those who would take delight in stripping the inhabitants of this territory of every right and every vestige of freedom and in reducing them to a condition of abject serfdom thus far they have been signally foiled in their nefarious plotting to obtain legislative action to aid them in their schemes but though disep pointed in this respect espe ct they still are bent on mischief and will do all they can as they have been doing to get possession of power to accomplish these ends there are no means too despi despicable gable pable for them to td employ the sett settlers fers of this territory those wha ame here herd with honest intent arnd arid riol riot has as bummers A and anil political poli sd shave have redee redeemed it from its iti ster lie ile and wilderness condition and what it is to baythe admiration af pf ever exer erm visitor th they 9 eatables established and have matu main 11 gained a free nep rep republican government and ind 1 stall stilla night right night right to govern that which they have won and preserved vedat at the price of bf such labors and sacrifices but ilu the clique of we speak would if they could by any means however foul wrench this rule ruie from them thoy they forsooth would woid govern us and make I 1 us their hewers howers of wood and drawers drav dray er 0 of f wi water vator ter the whey they y hate haye no hope of doing this by open fair fain means but by underhand strate strategy gk and watching for advantages they expect to annoy an ana nna d give trouble troubie ld now this is what the officers and thet people of this thia territory should guard against the they should recollect that eternal as 45 the thet price of liberty 12 they have th tife tilo elaw HW on their side their numerical superiority la Is all that caff can be desired and they barr can cam elect whom they please if they be properly qualified citi elti citizens zens of bf the united states for any an office within their gift gifts but let every officer and vo voter ter ten look well weil io to the lavy entrench himself behind it and show tha th vile plott plotters drs against our oun orun liberties the spectacle of a a free united people rising inthe inobe majesty of their strength and show showing liik ilik by liy their suf frages that th they bov kne re still determined to aule rule by the baila IZ the country which they have reclaimed land and made maderal vai val bable hable by their hardships and toll toil since this country was settled by free ree nee white p eople people they haye have R witnessed the incoming and outgoing of f scores and perhaps hundreds of such creatures aa as the aliquo we refer to is composed of they will yet hayo haye the satisfaction of beholding the egres egress sand aana and ana total disappearance of the present nry irry fry ago by a special a arrangement i of bf providence the political 11 lives ilves ves of such trick in this country have invariably been beba brief THEBE there have been of late in n relation to the officers 0 to o be voted for at the a approaching preaching pro aching 06 election tion the practice has hag prevailed from froin the organization of the terri terni territory tory un until til recently pf af electing the members of the territorial house of representatives every year and the members of the council counch every other year this mode of eledina electing these rhese officers was in accordance with the ti le provisions of section 4 of the organic act which bayl hayl aabye the legislative assembly shall consist of a council aldhouse and House of representatives benta senta tives the council shall consist 0 of 1 f thirteen members havink having the quail qualifications fica flea of voters aa as hereinafter prescribed whose term of oto filce office shall continue contina etwo two years the Th theoule eouse houed 0 representatives consist of twenty six members possessing the same qualifications as for fon members embers of the council md and whose term of service shall continue one year A question has arisen in the minds of some having this provision in the theor organic act before them respecting the pro propriety P biety of the election of members of the he house of last year uld and the elec election t ion lon 0 of f members of the council only at this coniff coming ig election A ew words byway by way of explanation M poll upon this his point may be satisfactory jn the general appropriation ili bill eill III passed by the congress of the united State sand approved by the president on march 3rd ard 1869 I 1 after mentioning the sum appropriated for defraying detra detka yin g the pay and ex anses of the legislative i assembly the bl proviso was inserted in seated provided that hereafter the memera ins irs of both branches of the legislative assemblies of the several territories shall be chosen for the term of two years and the sessions of the legislative iNtes shall be biennial blen bien nial and each territorial legislature I 1 edle eile shall at its ita first session after the passage of this act make provision by law for carrying this act into effect when this became uw law the leylila Le legislative ilila assembly of Territory the of utan for had adjourned the next istl winter and there wad wag no opportunity tiu iju i anity f 1 of carrying out the levof law of cori coti congress gre si un ic til it t should again me meet 1 et the assem 9 bly met on the second monday in tbt the year 1870 and while in session passed the following act which was approved february 15 1870 udd SEC 1 be it enacted enabled by the and legislative assembly of i tory of utah that the term of the members of the house of representative of the territory of utah to be elet edat the general election on the nira fira ficat t eighteen hun drep and seventy shall shail be two tro yeara years aad their shail shall be fie biennially I 1 h EG E ic zi S of the mem memi t bera dath alid legislatively legislative asi A s at of utah to heau beai elert elest eduthe edathe tho on the B nin fin ii t monday in au eighteen bun hun J 1 dri d stid shail be two twos lhoir be bien blen bieni i ea eoa Z section one lot lof ara ian van lou aou ct apportion j I 1 n 4 pa of utah terri cerri o approved 1862 kacon ak with this ach act aati IH fig heilbr hereby repealed repeal lii lil xii As no appropriation had been made mad s 1 by Congre congress beto seto to defray the tha elpe expense si of this assembly that body addressed to congress the following MEMORIAL gentlemen Gentle gentie mem mew your Memora mpa hiag lista the tha u governor and le legislative ass abs Assembly of the territory 9 utah T i beg eave to nail call conr attention to the fact th of congress requiring g territorial j lasures to fabe pass laws preparatory ai to holding biennial sessions was passed march third eighteen hundred andi andl and sixty nine nino arter after the he close of our oun llast liast session we ask iha tha b 14 made lide Ky Congress to gai defray the expenses of the present resent lie le f kia gia gi lature slature andybur And your sour a aa sla iu duty bound willever will ever pray j i congress so far approved althe e act action 1 oui owl of the governor Gover wg and legislative AS in conVen convening cony enin ink g at it the them time tim e ap pointed by vote that it made the he feces i sary appropriation t to meet all theeb the ex gensea of thesessa the uhe sessi n by perusing pet jiang the law enact edby the legislative As at that tha t session wag Wai ion lon which we I 1 giver above it will vili be p been seen a e n i that 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